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Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Great videos. It amazes me every time I think about how exponentially the skills of the rest of the world rose in just 10 years. It took monumental beat downs from this team for the rest of the world to realize just how far they had to go to compete with the US. You could tell those international teams just didn't know how to deal with an opponent where every guy on the floor knew exactly what to do in every situation, even when a play went bad.

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Great videos. It amazes me every time I think about how exponentially the skills of the rest of the world rose in just 10 years. It took monumental beat downs from this team for the rest of the world to realize just how far they had to go to compete with the US. You could tell those international teams just didn't know how to deal with an opponent where every guy on the floor knew exactly what to do in every situation, even when a play went bad.

Great post K-Stat.

They still really can't compete with us in my mind. It's just the last few times we haven't really sent our best players over. In 2003 we basically sent a bunch of young guys (D Wade, Lebron James, Emeka Okafor, etc...) and last year we didn't have Kobe Bryant. U.S is gonna return to something that half resembles that above. Which is still a gold medel team because The Dream Team would just blow people out.

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Of course I love the Dream Team, but I was expecting to see a thread about my Little League All Star team.

We still get no respect.

Hahahaha.
The only reason I'm laughing is because your team sucked and yet you still expect a hero's welcome. The only reason you won that last game was because your 3rd baseman took a huge lead on EVERY base, even though stealing isn't allowed in that age group. Not to mention your pitcher's obvious pine tar obsession and the "Major League Chew Incident" in the bottom of the 4th inning.

Now, on the other hand, my soccer traveling team was boss that year...

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Now, on the other hand, my soccer traveling team was boss that year...

You guys may have been boss, but that team will always only be remembered for the Colombian drug lords that assassinated your 10-year-old center midfielder after he scored that own-goal to knock you out of the Playoffs.

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Dream Team 2 was without a doubt the best-shooting team ever assembled, but as an overall team it was not on par with the original dream team, which excelled at every conceivable aspect of the game.

It was awesome to watch dream team 2 at times, though. They'd have stretches where they hit 6, 7, 8 shots in a row, and make it look easy. Dumars, Miller Majerle and Price had a field day with the closer 3-point line.

Last edited by Kstat; 08-08-2007 at 04:07 PM.

It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.

Re: The greatest team ever assembled turns 15...

Great videos. It amazes me every time I think about how exponentially the skills of the rest of the world rose in just 10 years.

I actually disagree. That first clip featured quality NBA guys like Kukoc and Sabonis getting punked on, both while they were young enough to be at their best. Arvy even as an aging player was one of the top fundamentals big men you'd like to see and when he was younger he was quick too.

The key is that youthful or in their prime guys like Robinson or Pippen were that much better than them. Don't try to tell me that any of the international guys would have stopped that Admiral throwdown on Arvy, or that Kukoc didn't get eaten for lunch trying to go lane by some elite defenders.

That team would DESTROY this current version. It wouldn't be close. You forget just how fundamentally strong they were, as KStat mentioned how great their passing skills were, and how comfortable even aging or slow guys like Magic, Bird and Mullin were with playing uptempo ball movement and aggressive defense. I mean Mully gets a backdoor steal and break even.

To me a young Robinson is better than Duncan, he's far more athletic and quick. Jordan was better than Lebron is now. Barkley was better than Bosh is. Drexler was WAY better than Melo is. And so on.

What I see is just how far down US/NBA ball has fallen, how much good fundamentals have been lost and just how much slower it is as a game. I'd blame the Bad Boys, but they could play some serious offense. It had more to do with Pat Riley's Knicks/Heat and those Cavs teams post Price/BD era.

Oh Booger. He couldn't help he had 2 left feet and a penchant for mining. But drug lords never have been understanding about the frail and mishapen. I just don't get where you come off piling on like that.

Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
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